Data Engineer

Talogy Middle East & Africa; Dubai; On-site; AED 223,000 - 446,000; Full time

Job summary

Talogy Middle East & Africa seeks a Data Engineer to join our data platform engineering team. You will manage databases (SQL Server, Azure SQL, Cosmos DB), develop SSIS packages, ADF pipelines, and Power BI reports to support business decisions worldwide.

The ideal candidate has strong SQL, Azure data services, Python, and DevOps practices, with experience across multi-vendor databases and BI tooling. You will collaborate across teams to deliver secure, scalable data solutions.

Qualifications

• Degree in computer science or related field or equivalent experience.
• Strong experience with MS SQL, Azure SQL and Cosmos DBs.
• 3–5 years developing, implementing and supporting SSIS packages and pipelines.

Responsibilities

• Understanding business needs and designing solutions meeting them.
• Managing and maintaining SQL Servers, Azure SQL databases, Cosmos DBs.
• Developing, managing and maintaining SSIS packages, ADF/Fabric pipelines.
• BAU support for SQL/NoSQL servers/databases including patching.
• Collaborate with development, infrastructure, DevOps and client solutions.
• Build resilient, secure, cost-effective data solutions and monitor performance.

Skills

MS SQL

Azure SQL

Cosmos DB

SSIS

ADF

Power BI

Python

GitHub

CI/CD

.NET/C#

Education

Degree in CS or related field

Tools

SSIS

ADF

SSRS

Power BI

Job description

At Talogy, our mission is to help people meet their potential. That is our core purpose, enabling our vision to empower people in their careers and drive organizational success. We achieve this by being the one workforce solutions provider that fuses science, technology and expertise to deliver best-in-class testing, assessment and development products and services.

Talogy’s culture is as strong as the people who embody our core values. These include our drive to work together as one team, to be dependable in our pursuit of rigor and excellence, to value people and respect everyone’s talents, to embrace diversity in perspectives and culture, and to think creatively with the willingness to experiment.

Learn more about what we do at: www.talogy.com

Why This Role is Important to Talogy

Access to data and information is important to enable timely and informed business decisions to be made or to meet contractual or compliance requirements. Developer as part of data platform engineering team ensure that data is available, secure and comply with Talogy policies all the time across the globe.

Who We Are Looking For

This opportunity is ideal for a determined and proactive individual who is willing to develop their skills in a variety of technical disciplines. This role requires an analytical thinker who pays significant attention to detail in their work.

The Data Engineer will spend most of their time working in the space of managing databases and database servers ensuring database health, availability, security and backups etc as well as developing and supporting SSIS packages, ADF pipelines, SSRS and Power BI reports/dashboards,

We are looking for an experienced Data Engineer who has multi-vendor management databases administration and design experience as well as extensive experience with Azure cloud databases. We have MS SQL servers, Azure SQL databases, Azure Cosmos databases, multiple SSIS packages, ADF/Fabric pipelines, Power BI dashboards, multiple ETL packages with diverse data sources and are looking for someone with experience in most of the above (if not all).

• Degree in a computer science or related field or equivalent experience.
• High degree of intellectual curiosity; constantly think about how we can improve our process and produce excellent high-quality solutions for our customers.

Core Responsibilities

The Data Engineer is primarily responsible for:

• Understanding business needs and designing and building solutions that meet those needs. Capable of designing and defending a solution.
• Managing and maintaining SQL Servers, Azure SQL databases, Azure Cosmos Databases
• Developing, Managing and maintaining SSIS packages, ADF/Fabric pipelines.
• BAU support for all SQL and NoSQL servers/databases including patching.
• Work closely with development, infrastructure, DevOps and client solutions and endeavour to provide best services.
• Support in building resilient, reliable, secure and cost-effective solutions.
• Staying ahead of issues with proactive monitoring and alerting.

Role Requirements

• Strong experience as MS SQL, Azure SQL and Cosmos DBs database administrator.
• End-to-end knowledge from databases architecture to implementation, deployment and administration.
• 3-5 years of experience in developing, implementing and supporting SSIS packages involving scripting tasks.
• Experience in Azure cloud data technologies including Azure SQL database, Azure SQL managed instance and Azure Cosmos DB.
• 3-5 years of experience in developing, implementing and supporting ADF/Fabric pipelines.
• 3-5 years of experience in developing, implementing and supporting SSRS reports/dashboards.
• 3-5 years of experience in developing, implementing and supporting Power BI dashboards and reports.
• In depth experience and knowledge of Power BI architecture, components and troubleshooting.
• Strong experience and knowledge of Python.
• Experience of using GitHub or similar repositories collaboration and version controls.
• Maintain technical documentation and source control related to project design and implementation.
• Monitor performance of database systems resources and query throughput.
• Optimize Code/scripts as necessary, monitor and maintain databases at database and OS level.
• Monitor and maintain databases to have up to date backups as per company SLAs.
• Nice to have knowledge of DevOps repositories, CI/CD pipelines.
• Experience with Azure AI Foundry will be beneficial.
• Some knowledge of .Net/C# required.
• Azure/SQL/NoSQL or other database certification desirable.
• Participation in On-Call rotations or Shift work as required by specific role or assignment.
• Excellent communication skills, both verbal and written.
• Comfortable working with staff at all levels.
• Ability to self-organise, prioritise and track tasks.
• Can work on their own or as part of a team.